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Who should pay for climate solutions? The debate is heating up
(www.latimes.com)
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The biggest polluters should, like oil and gas industries. They've profited off the destruction, they should pay their fair share in cleaning it up.
You have to legislate that they can't pass the expense on to consumers, or they'll just pass the expense on to consumers. And that's where it hits a wall, because all of the conservatives go fucking ballistic when you start talking about the government mandating how a business should run, despite the fact that they're perfectly okay with all of the anti-competitive laws that the big business got passed to keep them in absolute control over everything.